What! alive, and so bold, O earth?

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

Whenever you make up your mind to go into solitude, you must decide first of all what you want to go and do there.

Don’t limit yourself, discover new areas of expertise

Aim High and Hit the Mark

Now that I am past picking the knife to stab one, the reward of stabbing a few more comes at an unfairly lower risk!

You live in a dangerous place when you sacrifice integrity for security.

People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.

The Tonys are also kind of like a homegrown party. You know everybody.

If you read only the New York Times- I said, 'Oh my God!' The readers of the New York Times are heading for a major, major breakdown shock if Trump is in fact elected.

On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point.